"Been home for an un-interrupted week with my fam," Kilpatrick wrote a week after the trial was halted Oct. 28. "It's so important for boys to have real relationship w/their dads. Bruhs, take care of home."

The Detroit News revealed the ex-mayor had been staying in a lavish downtown hotel, flying back and forth to Texas on a regular basis, making $500-per-month payments on $856,563 in court-ordered restitution and funding a $372,000 home.

After this, Kilpatrick downgraded his accommodations and began lodging at the home owned by his mother, former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Detroit.

"Why would the … media have all of this information?" Kilpatrick wrote to his parole agent Oct. 21, according to documents obtained by The Detroit News. "This puts my mom's home in potential danger, as well as, her and myself."

Along with father Bernard Kilpatrick and friend and city contractor
Bobby Ferguson, Kwame Kilpatrick faces charges of
operating an illegal criminal enterprise involving extortion, accepting
bribes and kickbacks, mail and wire fraud, contract rigging, obstructing
justice and making malicious threats to extort money, the federal U.S.
Attorney's complaint says.

Charges against Kilpatrick and his co-defendants carry prison sentences of up to 20 years.